Daniel Chechik and Anat (Fox) Davidi of Trustwave write: In our last episode of “Look What I Found” we talked about a fairly large instance of the Pony Botnet Controller. With the source code of Pony leaked and in the wild, we continue to see new instances and forks of Pony 1.9. One of the latest instances we’ve run…
Vodafone Iceland Official Statement and Look into SMS Data.
Detailed report The past weekend has been interesting, especially for those who live in Iceland and mainly for Vodafone Iceland after 357MB of data was leaked from their systems servers. As it has been made aware already across many website Vodafone was and most likely still is logging your SMS text messages in MySQL based databases with…
Draft Measures on Protection and Privacy of Personal Health Information Published in China
On November 19, 2013, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China published a draft of its proposed new Administrative Measures on Personal Health Information (the “Draft Measures”) and solicited public comments by December 20, 2013. This is the first time the Chinese government has proposed an integrated and uniform framework for the…
Witchery pulls mobile site after customer details exposed
Sarah Michael reports: Witchery has shut down its mobile website after it was hit with a security breach that exposed customers’ personal details and orders. A glitch in the “track my order” function for online shopping opens personal details pages of other customers, and even allows them to edit the information. It also allows them…
Wisconsin man sentenced in Kansas for participating in Anonymous DDoS attack on Koch Industries
A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution for taking part in a cyber-attack on Koch Industries in Wichita that was sponsored by the collective known as Anonymous. U.S. Attorney Barr Grissom made the announcement yesterday. Eric J. Rosol, 38, Black Creek, Wis., pleaded guilty…
NYS Comptroller finds IT security deficits in towns of Babylon and Salina
Every so often I post audit reports from the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Last week, the office posted two completed audits worth noting here: The Town of Babylon was audited for the period January 1, 2011 — July 31, 2012. In addition to significant concerns about the town’s financial health conditions and other matters, one of…